NOUN | plant | apple of Peru, shoo fly, Nicandra physaloides | coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry |
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plant | apple of Peru, jimsonweed, jimson weed, Jamestown weed, common thorn apple, Datura stramonium | intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits |
Meaning | coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry. | |
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Synonyms | shoo fly, Nicandra physaloides | |
Member of | Nicandra, genus Nicandra | sturdy annual of Peru |
Broader | herb, herbaceous plant | A plant lacking a permanent woody stem |
Meaning | intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits. | |
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Synonyms | jimsonweed, jimson weed, Jamestown weed, common thorn apple, Datura stramonium | |
Broader | thorn apple | Any of several plants of the genus Datura |
Spanish | estramonio | |
Catalan | Datura stramonium |
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